Society has a way of dismissing older people, as if by virtue of aging you’re become some sort of tool with no opinions and and endless capacity to be shoved around. Financial limitations and health woes only add to the sense of powerlessness, but at some point, enough is enough. Joe (Michael Caine), WIllie (Morgan …
Based upon Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the film explores the relationship between a stubborn Southern woman, Daisy (Jessica Tandy), and her good-natured but equally determined driver, Hoke (Morgan Freeman). After realizing that she can no longer safely drive herself, Daisy’s son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd) hires Hoke to serve as her chauffeur. Though she …
A long time ago there was a spoof of a Japanese television show on Saturday Night Live. In it, a father commanded his son to do his homework, and when the son replied that he had no homework, the father proclaimed, “Then you must fight the bear!” He opened the front door, and there stood …